The Curbsight Blog
Buying guides and field notes for contractors — written by Sol Zendejas-Smith, founder, curbsight, who knocked the doors before he built the software. No filler, real numbers, dated so you know they're current.
5-seat roofing stack vs one bill. Roofr, CompanyCam, and Sales Rabbit priced as of Sep 2026, next to Curbsight OS at $750.
Read →Roofing profit in 2026 moves on close rate, ticket, and referral rate. The levers, with the math — including what an 8% vs 3% ask is worth.
Read →A good roofing sales team still hits a ceiling. The cost is idle hours and low-score doors, not the hire. The cost is not lost jobs. It is what your best people quietly absorb — and what that costs you.
Read →Seven tests for roofing software in 2026, runnable on a demo call. Curbsight passes six. The one it fails is coverage, named up front.
Read →HubSpot for a roofing shop: Sales Hub Pro is $90 a seat and onboarding is $1,500. The other four costs, priced — including the one nobody quotes.
Read →Roofing appointment software books the slot. The closer still arrives missing 7 facts the setter learned at the door. What those facts are.
Read →Paper works at five roofing jobs a month. It breaks on open jobs, not monthly volume. The count, and what the leak costs.
Read →Referrals cap at your install base: 300 roofs at 8-10% is 24-30 jobs a year, however hard you work. Four owned channels beat it, ranked by cost per closed job.
Read →Why door-to-door teams leave Sales Rabbit: seat minimums, setup fees, multi-year terms, a blank map. Four replacements worth switching to, and what each costs.
Read →Curbsight, AccuLynx, JobNimbus, Roofr, RoofLink, QuoteIQ, Projul, Jobber — on what each actually costs, and which stack layer each still leaves you paying for.
Read →A 5-rep roofing stack is six line items. Published 2026 prices, itemized — plus the re-entry cost that never shows on an invoice.
Read →The industry pays per measurement report, per roof, forever. How self-drafting estimates from aerial data work — and the accuracy trade-off nobody advertises.
Read →Yes — editable pipeline, self-drafting estimates, invoicing with QuickBooks sync, photo docs, material ordering. The full tour, plus the gap we name out loud.
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